The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-03-16

and insults to DOR women, they
will be driven from the town by
an Infatuated and determined army
of citizens, and shot down in their
tracks, if they refuse to 60 when
hidden. Husbands, fathers, broth
ers. arm yourselves TO protect your
wives, daughters, sisters, from the
insults of these loathsome and ,des-
pissed ours. If any of the female
members of your families are again
insulted by them, hunt the scoun,.
drels down, and kill them wherev-
er youtfind them. Men can pro-
tecti themselves from insult from
the outlawed Italians-women cans
not. This may be severe Language
but the conduct of these men Just
ify what is here said as the follow.
ing will show:
Saturday night while one of our
most prominent men was on his
way home, in company with his.
wife, they were followed for some
distance by a lot of these drunken
Italians, who insulted his wife and
tried to lay their dirty hands upon
her, and threatened him because
he protected her by keeping them
off with a club, the only weapon he
had. Had he had gun or pistol
there would have been some dead
Italians found ON the streets next
morning. Unfortunately he did
not recognize any of the assailants
and on the next morning, when
armed and on the lookout could
not have the satisfaction of illing
any of them, which he would have
done if he could have identified
any of them. They will do well
to keep away from him and his
family hereafter, if they don't want
to be sent back to sunny Italy in
a pine box.
On Sunday afternoon one of
these seoundrels insulted the wife
a prominent gentleman, right up
on Main street, end could the beast
have been identified, he would not
have lived five minutes.
Several other rumors comes TO
US of their insults to respectable
women.
Will our people stand this2 Can
they stand it2
We concede their right to come
here and work, but the people ex.
pect and demand that they shall
behave like gentlemen, and not
like outlaws.
RAILROAD NEws.-The Ohio R
R. is now ready to receive freight
and furnish tickets for all points,
at their depot, in the Extension.
The contracts for grading the
Ohio River Railroad between this
place and Huntington, have been
let, and work will be commenced
April LIST.
Miss Addie Baker is one of the
telegraph operators in the Ohio
River Railroad Office at this place.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says
the K. & o. Railroad will extend
its road down the Ohio to Ports
mouth, to connect with the Ohio
and Northeastern, and from this
place to MiddIeport, also up the
Kanawha to Gauley river and con-
meet at that point with the Chesa-
peake and Ohio.
We understand that the Ohio
River Railroad Company will put
a number of lots in the Extension,
on the market, next month.
The K. & o. is pulling a vast
quantity of freight over its line.
The greatest amount of revenue
of any depot on the K. & o. is col
lected at the depot in this city.
The Ohio River Railroad will
grade a wharf at the upper end of
Main Street, on the Ohio.
The contemplated Gallipolis rail
roads will all have their terminals
in Point Pleasant.
The officers and bondholders
went over the K. o. last week. a
meeting was held at Charleston, at
which it was determined to put the
road in first-class order and to ex-
tend the road up the Kanawha for
about fifty miles.
Says the Kanawha Gazette: 1.-THE
business of the K. & o. Railroad
Company is increasing. The Com
pany has recently ordered FIVE hun
bred freight cars and ten freight
and passenger engines. Il is as
serted that this road will be pushed
ON tn ~connection with the Rich.